So here we are the 1st of January 2015 & the beginning of my Plastic Free year! Happy New Year to you all!

I woke up this morning feeling excited but also a little nervous…could I do this…could I live plastic free? There are so many things I love that come in plastic…potato chips, crackers, cheese…all manner of carby delights! I decided the I needed to wash away any doubts with a dip in the ocean, the spark that started me on this journey, so I headed to the beach with a freshly made juice first thing to immerse myself in salt & start the year off in a nourishing way.
The water was lush, the perfect temperature & a high tide, the Basin being nice & full with the occasional wave, quelling my concerns.

With a salty start to the day I continued with my ritual to bring in the New Year & plan out what I wanted to achieve for the year ahead. I kept it simple with some yoga, mediation, goal writing & a look through my gratitude jar from 2014 – Now if you haven’t tried a gratitude jar its really worthwhile. Basically throughout the year you write notes to yourself about things you are grateful for. I also popped in treasures & notes written from friend’s….was wonderful to re-read them & connect with those moments again.

But I digress. After this lovely wee treat I continued on ridding my home of the last remnants of plastic to start nice & fresh. Now I have been working on this for the last 2 months, popping things in glass jars & starting to purchase things with out plastic. I saved it all to get a sense what I would use over a 2-month period to give myself a bit of a benchmark.

So to break it down as I had to stack some into piles this is what I had:

Un-recyclable Items – 89 Random bits, lids from glass bottles etc. 38 Food packages – plastic wrapping from bought items, cracker wrappers. 20 Sandwich zip lock bags.  40 Packages which contained dried food – who knows what sort of plastic this is! So thats 187 single items in total.